The Building Champions Leadership Development Blog
Drawing upon their decades of leadership experience — and the hundreds of conversations they have each week with leaders across the country — our team of coaches deliver insights, strategies, and tips to help you improve how you lead and live.
How to Recognize and Approach Advancement Opportunities in Your Career
How do you take your career to the next level? Learn how to identify career advancement opportunities and reach your professional goals using leadership skills.
The Power of Connection
In March 2020, the global pandemic wiped the calendar clean. All events were cancelled. We moved to remote work, and the apartment I had merely slept in became the walls that protected me. And I didn’t notice at first, but the lack of social interaction began to wear on me. I felt tired, lethargic, uninspired.
Understanding and Harnessing Executive Presence
The key element at the center of executive presence is a high level of confidence and an ability to easily make connections with the people around you. Having executive presence means showing your value, and that you belong in the room where it’s happening. This trait can be hard to define and even harder to learn, but it’s not impossible to cultivate.
3 Ways to Calculate Vision
As humans, we spend a lot of time looking forward, to both determine our direction so we know what’s to come and build excitement for future experiences. And as leaders, it’s one of the most important things we bring to our team. After all, leadership without vision is just management.
When Things Don’t Go as Planned
If setting hard and fast goals for your life is a bit overwhelming, I just want to say, “I get it.” Life can throw major curveballs and your trajectory can change dramatically—sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s heartbreaking—and sometimes it’s both.
Fighting The Drift In Life
We all know the dangers of distracted driving — it claims thousands of lives each year. But even if you don’t drive distracted, there’s a good chance you’ve lived distracted at some point. And that has a consequence, too. It’s called The Drift.
The Multitasking Myth
Many of us defend multitasking and insist it makes us more efficient. After all, why do one thing when you can get two, three, maybe even four things done? The multitasking truth may be hard to swallow, but accepting it is the first step to a more productive future. In this quick Virtual Coaching Tip, Executive Coach Todd Mosetter shares the truth about multitasking and the alternative method that will make you more productive.
Pulling Back Can Help You Push Further Ahead
Taking time to pull back, to stop, reflect, think and adjust, can be hard. In our endless quest to get things done, many of us find ourselves running from activity to activity with little time to pull back. But often that time is exactly what we need to be more focused, efficient, and productive—both for ourselves and our teams.
Improve your mindset with one phrase
In this quick Virtual Coaching Tip, Executive Coach Todd Mosetter shares one simple phrase you can start using immediately to improve your mindset and get everything on your list done.
4 Tools for Better Self-Leadership
In this Virtual Coaching Tip, our founder and CEO Daniel Harkavy shares four essential tools to help you lead yourself – and ultimately your team and organization – better. Learn about each of these tools and how they can help take you from where you are in life to where you want to be.